44 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 205 



Family Talpidae (moles) 



Subfamily scalopinae 

 Genus NEUROTRICHUS " Gunther 



1880. Neiirotrichus Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, pt. 3, p. 441, 

 October 1880. (Type, Urotrichus gibbsii Baird.) 



Neiirotrichus gibbsii gibbsii (Baird) f* 



1858. Urotrichus gibbsii Baird, Mammals, in Rep. Expl. Surv. Railr. to 



Pacific, vol. 8, pt. 1 (Washington, 1857), p. 76, July 14, 1858. 

 1880. Neiirotrichus [sic] gibbsi Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, pt. 3, 



pi. 42, October 1880. 

 1884. Neiirotrichus gibbsii True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 ( App., Circ. 29) , 



p. 607, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1899. Neiirotrichus gibbsi major Merriamf , North Amer. Fauna No. 16, p. 88, 

 Oct. 28, 1899. (Carberry Ranch, between Mount Shasta and Mount Lassen, 

 Shasta County, Calif. Altitude, 4,100 feet.) 

 Type Locality. — White River Pass [ = Naches Pass, altitude, 4,500 feet; see 

 Dalquest and Burgner, Murrelet, vol. 22, No. 1, p. 12, Apr. 30, 1941], Pierce 

 County, Wash. Range. — Extreme southwestern British Columbia north to 

 North Vancouver, western Washington and Oregon west of Cascade Mountains, 

 south in coast region to Eureka, Humboldt County, Calif., and in interior, west 

 of Sierra Nevada, to South Yolla Bolly Mountain, Calif. 



Neiirotrichus gibbsii minor Dalquest and Burgner* 



1941. Neiirotrichus gibbsii minor Dalquest and Burgner, Murrelet, vol. 22, 

 No. 1, p. 12, Apr. 30, 1941. 



Type Locality. — University of Washington campus, Seattle, King County, 

 Wash. Range. — Lowlands of western Washington; marginal records, Mt. 

 Vernon, Cottage Lake, and Yacolt (Dalquest, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol.2, p. 124, Apr. 9, 1948). 



Neiirotrichus gibbsii hyacinthinus Bangs* 



1897. Neiirotrichus gibbsi hyacinthinus Bangs, Amer. Nat., vol. 31, p. 240, 

 March 1897. 



Type Locality. — Nicasio, Marin County, Calif. Range. — Narrow humid coast 

 belt, from Cuddeback, Humboldt County, south as far as near Watsonville, 

 Santa Cruz County, and vicinity of Fremont Peak, near north end of Gabilan 

 Range, Monterey County, Calif.; vertical range, below 800 feet; zonal range, 

 chiefly Transition (Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 40, No. 2, p. 79, 

 Sept. 26, 1933). 



"Revised by True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 19, pp. 98-106, Dec. 21, 1896, and Jackson, 

 North Amer. Fauna No. 38, pp. 92-98, Sept. 30, 1915. 



